Operation now in progress error on connect( function) error

Question

I want to set timeout value of function connect but I get this error: "Operation now in progress"

My code:

if ((he = gethostbyname(authdefhost)) == NULL) {         snprintf(errbuf, CERRBUFSIZ - 1, "cannot resolve %s: %s\n", authdefhost, hstrerror(h_errno));         return -1; }  sin.sin_family = AF_INET; memcpy(&sin.sin_addr, he->h_addr_list[0], sizeof(struct in_addr));         if ((sd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {         snprintf(errbuf, CERRBUFSIZ - 1, "cannot create client socket: %s\n", strerror(errno));         return -1; }  if ((fcntl(sd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK) < 0))     printf("error on setting socket flags.");  if (connect(sd, (void *) & sin, sizeof(sin)) == -1) {         snprintf(errbuf, CERRBUFSIZ - 1, "cannot connect to server %s: %s\n", authdefhost, strerror(errno));         close(sd);         return -1; }  FD_ZERO(&fdset); FD_SET(sd, &fdset); int rv; if ((rv = select(sd + 1, NULL, &fdset, NULL, &tv)) == -1) {     printf("error occurred on select function.");     return -1; } else if (rv == 0) {     printf("time out occurred.");     return -1; } else {     printf("connection established");     return sd; } 

Answer 1

When you call connect() on a non-blocking socket, you'll get EINPROGRESS instead of blocking waiting for the connection handshake to complete. Then, you have to select() for writability, and check the socket error to see if the connection has completed.

From Linux's connect() manpage:

EINPROGRESS      The socket is nonblocking and the connection cannot be completed     immediately.  It is possible to select(2) or poll(2) for completion by     selecting the socket for writing.  After select(2) indicates     writability, use getsockopt(2) to read the SO_ERROR option at level     SOL_SOCKET to determine whether connect() completed successfully     (SO_ERROR is zero) or unsuccessfully (SO_ERROR is one of the usual     error codes listed here, explaining the reason for the failure).